Tag Archives: Thematic

Thematic Tabbed Widgets

Tabbed widgets for WordPress themes have been around since WordPress it self. They are a perfect way to save on vertical space and add a bit of interaction with the users. There are two classic ways of implementing the tabbed widgets. Creating a hard coded widget and using the jQuery Cycle plugin. This means you [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 16 Comments

Early Morning Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme was inspired by the colors of the early morning as I see them from my window. It’s light, elegant and pleasantly surprising. This theme doesn’t scream at you, instead it takes a step back and lets the user read. Please don’t spoil it by putting ads on it!
By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 115 Comments

Add “Featured Posts” to your Thematic child theme

Featured posts are common in WordPress magazine themes. They let you promote hot topics and bring your best articles right in front of your users. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct changes to Thematic. The featured posts will be inserted on the home [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Thematic, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 27 Comments

Street WordPress Theme

Street is something that was created from a spark of inspiration, something that I felt should look like this. This wasn’t thought out nor planed. It uses the beautiful Vegur Free Font for the headings and main menu, implemented by Cufon (text replacement technique). I’ve spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , , , | 77 Comments

Add a search box to the thematic menu

A search box in main menu is something a lot of themes have by design. Although this is not the case with the Thematic Theme Framework, it’s easy to customize it with a few lines of code. First thing we need to do is create a thematic child theme. This way we won’t make direct [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 40 Comments

Green anyone? Try Commune – Thematic Child Theme!

Simply put I have been lazy lately. I know this isn’t the best way to sell my self but a little bit of honesty hasn’t hurt anyone (or has it? ). So without further ado I here by present you Commune Child Theme based on Thematic! As far as I know it’s the first magazine [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 255 Comments

Quickly add a Category DropDown to Thematic 0.9

With the launch of Thematic 0.9 we now have out of the box drop-down menus to work with. This is one of the many features added to 0.9 that was requested by the community. However sometimes one might want to replace the default Thematic menu with a menu composed with the categories and sub-categories of [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 15 Comments

Replacing the Thematic Menu with a DropDown List of Categories

There comes a time when you might want to use the Thematic Theme for other things then just a blog, like a magazine or a portal and it might be best suited to have the categories of your blog on top instead of your static pages. After all, you’ll probably have two static pages (about [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 23 Comments

Installing WordPress Child Themes and Customizing the Byty Theme

Source byty.ro Since I’ve launched by first WordPress Child Theme based on Thematic I thought writing about how you can make small changes to the theme and put your own graphical logo, add css for other plugins, basically create a customized version of it. This post is divided in 4 different parts, particularly: Installing WordPress [...]
By Cristian | Posted in Recomended Reading, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 14 Comments

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